The symposium highlighted pioneering research topics spanning epigenetics, aging, cell lineage, microbial evolution, human brain evolution and more, and included a keynote addresses by Allan Jones, President and CEO of the Allen Institute and Rick Horwitz, Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science.

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